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τροφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τροφεύς τροφέως

Structure: τροφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: trofh/

Sense

  1. one who rears or brings up, a foster-father, a nurse, ye who reared, one who fosters

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τροφεύς τροφή τροφής
Genitive τροφέως τροφέοιν τροφέων
Dative τροφεί τροφέοιν τροφεῦσιν*
Accusative τροφέα τροφή τροφέᾱς
Vocative τροφεύ τροφή τροφής

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐχ ὑμεῖσ ἐστε οἱ πολλάκισ ἐπαινοῦντεσ ἡμᾶσ δἰ ὅλησ τῆσ ἡμέρασ, τοὺσ μὲν ἀριστεῖσ λέγοντεσ, τοὺσ δὲ Ὀλυμπίουσ, τοὺσ δὲ σωτῆρασ, τοὺσ δὲ τροφέασ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 19:3)
  • μισθοδότασ τε καὶ τροφέασ. (Plato, Republic, book 5 329:1)
  • ἰδιώσασθαι, τοὺσ δὲ πρὶν φυλαττομένουσ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ὡσ ἐλευθέρουσ φίλουσ τε καὶ τροφέασ, δουλωσάμενοι τότε περιοίκουσ τε καὶ οἰκέτασ ἔχοντεσ, αὐτοὶ πολέμου τε καὶ φυλακῆσ αὐτῶν ἐπιμελεῖσθαι. (Plato, Republic, book 8 58:1)
  • οὕστινασ δ’ ἂν τροφέασ προτέρουσ ὑμῶν ἄγοι τισ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, δοκῶν γε δή πωσ εἰσ Ἕλληνασ τελεῖν, οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὑρεῖν, ὥσ γέ μοι φαίνεται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:2)
  • ὥστε ἔξεστιν εἰπεῖν ἰδίᾳ μὲν ἄλλουσ ἄλλοισ εἶναι τροφέασ, οὓσ ἂν ἡ τύχη καὶ ὁ συμπίπτων χρόνοσ ἑκάστοισ παρασκευάσῃ, κοινοὺσ δὲ ἁπάντων τροφέασ ὑμᾶσ εἶναι καὶ μόνουσ καὶ πρό γε αὐτῶν ἔτι τῶν τροφέων, ὥσπερ οὓσ πατέρασ πατέρων καλοῦσιν οἱ ποιηταί· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:4)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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